Tag: Reptiles

Saying eastern hog-nosed snakes are a little prickly is probably an understatement. When Laura Robson, a master’s student at the University of Ottawa at the time, would approach one, the...

The best way to track down a cryptic pinsesnake may be searching for trace DNA left in the soil around its prey. Louisiana pinesnakes are notoriously hard to find, even...

A female hawksbill sea turtle unwittingly ingested many of the chemicals in her body while feeding off the coast of northern Oahu for several years before 2012. By the time...

Flames and snakes don’t just go well together on motorcycle decals and heavy metal album covers. According to new research, prescribed fires every few years in longleaf pine forests in...

Predators are stopping many bog turtle eggs from hatching and growing to adulthood. The bog turtle is the smallest turtle in the U.S., measuring only about three to four inches...

Researchers in Ontario are looking into whether a great wall could keep snakes from getting onto highways that can be lethal to them. Canada’s two populations of gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis...

Sea turtles have long held a special place in the traditional stories of Ghanaian fishing communities. In a story that varies depending on the community and who’s telling it, ancestors...

Lizards may be able to cope with climate change by rapidly adapting to new temperatures, but not without physically slowing down. These changes in fitness might make the lizards more...

Aquatic snake species in Kentucky have high incidences fungal disease, which may affect their behavior without impacting their short-term survival. “We did see that snakes — especially the queen snakes...

A new large-scale snake survey has found that a deadly fungal disease has spread through 19 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. The snake fungal disease Ophidiomycosis is caused by the fungus...